On Evaluation Metrics in Optimality Theory
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Author(s)
Rasin, Ezer
Katzir, Roni
Date Issued
May 2016
Journal
Linguistic Inquiry
Publisher
MIT Press
Citation
Rasin, Ezer, and Roni Katzir. “On Evaluation Metrics in Optimality Theory.” Linguistic Inquiry 47.2 (2016): 235–282. © 2016 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Final published version
Abstract
We develop an evaluation metric for Optimality Theory that allows a learner to induce a lexicon and a phonological grammar from unanalyzed surface forms. We wish to model aspects of knowledge such as the English-speaking child’s knowledge that the aspiration of the first segment of k[superscript h]æt is predictable and the French-speaking child’s knowledge that the final l of table ‘table’ is optional and can be deleted while that of parle ‘speak’ cannot. We show that the learner we present succeeds in obtaining this kind of knowledge and is better equipped to do so than other existing learners in the literature.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00210
